Shloka 12
Adhyaya 29 — Alarka’s Inquiry and Madalasa’s Teaching on Householder Dharma (Gārhasthya), Vaiśvadeva, and Atithi Hospitality
तेषामुच्छेदकर्ता च यो नरोऽत्यन्तपापकृत् ।
स तमस्यान्धतामिस्त्रे तामिस्त्रे च निमज्जति ॥
teṣām ucchedakartā ca yo naro ’tyantapāpakṛt | sa tamasy āndhatāmistre tāmistre ca nimajjati ||
「しかし、彼らに当然与えられるべき養いと祭式を断ち切る者—きわめて重い罪業をなす者—は、『闇』へ、盲なる闇へ、そして全き闇へと沈み落ちる（おそるべき地獄の境位）。」
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FAQs
Withholding what sustains others—whether offerings, hospitality, or due rites—is treated as a grave ethical rupture with severe karmic consequence.
Dharma (ācāra) and karmaphala instruction; a moral-legal passage rather than cosmogenesis or dynastic history.
‘Darkness’ signifies not only punitive realms but the inward contraction of consciousness caused by severing reciprocity—spiritual obscuration mirroring ethical failure.